Category: Future of Drink
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Coffee, without the bean, is what startup Compound Foods promises, and the company just raised $4.5 to help make that goal a reality. TechCrunch was first to report today that Compound has raised $4.5 million in Seed funding from investors including Lowercarbon Capital, SVLC, Humboldt Fund, Collaborative Fund, Maple VC, Petri Bio and angel investors.…
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We drink an insane amount of bubble water in our household. And while it’s all from recyclable aluminum cans, it still feels… excessive. Which is why the new Bottle+ project on Kickstarter caught my eye. The SPARK Bottle+ is a travel thermos with a built-in, re-usable CO2 chamber to fizz up your water while you’re…
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In July of last year, during the first wave of the pandemic, PepsiCo introduced the SodaStream Professional connected sparkling water system for offices. At the time we noted that the machine, which reduces the need for single-use platic bottles was a good idea, but its future seemed questionable given that offices were closed. Even now,…
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Singapore-based Crown Digital announced yesterday that it will be installing its robotic baristas at 30 Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) stations in that country by the end of 2022. Dubbed “Ella,” Crown Digital’s robo-coffee kiosk is 5 sq. meters, serves a variety of coffee and tea drinks, and can make up to 200 coffees per hour.…
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NotCo, a Chile-based company, is sometimes referred to as the Impossible Foods/Beyond Meat of Latin America. The company produces various alternative products including plant-based mayo, burgers, ice cream, and milk. When they reached out to me recently offering to send samples of their products, I happily accepted. NotCo uses its patented A.I. platform to determine…
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Cirkul, a beverage technology company, raised $30 million in a Series B round this week according to a press release sent to The Spoon. The round was led by AF Ventures and also saw participation from SC.Holdings, Siddhi Capital, and several other private investors. This brings the Cirkul’s total funding to $41.6 million. Founded in…
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Something we’ve pondered here at The Spoon is how age verification might work for vending machines that sell beer or booze. We’ve seen other automated alcohol dispensers like Hop Robotics and Rotender rely on the venue where they are installed to have humans do the ID checking (think: a beer garden area at a festival).…
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The most developed category in the plant-based space is alternative dairy, which is estimated to be worth around $2.5 billion. There is so much development in the sector that it feels like a new type of alternative milk such as Táche’s pistachio milk or Take Two Foods‘ barley milk, pops up every week. You can…
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Today Keurig, the maker of the omnipresent coffee pod brewing systems, debuted a new smart brewing platform called BrewID. So what is BrewID? According to the announcement, BrewID is “an all new technology platform designed to support a number of features, such as the ability to identify a specific K-Cup pod brand from more than…
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As a vegan, it is my dream to see plant-based milk options everywhere I go. Most coffee shops are hip to this, but there are certainly still some areas in the foodservice sector that lag behind in the alternative milk game. A start-up called Uproot, based in New York City, has the mission of distributing…
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EBar, the Aberdeen, U.K.-based beer vending machine company, announced today that it has raised a £670,000 (~$916,000 USD) equity round of funding. In an email to The Spoon, EBar Managing Director Sam Pettipher said that of the new money, £150,000 (~$205,000 USD) came via equity crowdfunding via the Seedrs platform, £300,000 (~$410,000 USD) came from…
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This is the web version of our Weekly Spoon newsletter. Subscribe today to get all the best food tech news delivered direct to your inbox! Beer is the pizza of beverage automation. Previously, I’ve noted that if you want to see the future of food tech, you should look at pizza. From robot assembly to…
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